Post-Black-Friday Rebound
rising fastTuesday, 01 December 2026 to Thursday, 10 December 2026
Packs dry up again, supply falls, and prices recover by 15–30 % within 7–10 days.
What to do
Hold your Black Friday buys and sell them off in batches once the price sits 20–30 % above what you paid. Don't wait for the absolute peak.
What actually worked in this phase
From the FC 26 season, every card from 5,000 coins up, bought and sold again after 7 days, after the 5 % EA tax. Buying at random in this phase returned -13 % on average. The percentages below were tested on cards that were not used to find the patterns.
- ▲Icons that lost more than 15 % the week before: +6.8 %
- ▲cards rated 88 to 90 that lost more than 15 % the week before: +1.3 %
- ▼Better left alone, meta gold cards that rose the week before: -24.1 %
- ▼Better left alone, meta gold midfielders: -23.4 %
Expected daily move by card type
Baseline for an 85–87 rated card with normal hype, before day-of-week patterns and events.
| Gold (standard) | +0.1 % / day |
| Gold meta (in demand) | -0.3 % / day |
| Team of the Week / inform | +1.9 % / day |
| Promo card | +1 % / day |
| Icon | +1 % / day |
| Hero | +1.5 % / day |